CUBC - Cambridge University Boat Club
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| 17/08/2006 | Season Start | ||
| 16/01/2004 | Spanish Training Camp | ||
| 02/12/2006 | Run up to Trial VIIIs | ||
| 24/06/2002 | CUBC clean sweep in Elite events for VIIIs and IVs at Marlow Regatta, 22nd June | ||
| 22/10/2003 | Friday December 19th - Cambridge Trial Eights | ||
| 19/03/2006 | THE OFFICIAL CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE PARTY - SUNDAY 2nd APRIL 2006 | ||
| 04/09/2007 | Cambridge Blues to the fore at 2007 World Rowing Championships | ||
| 09/09/2004 | CUBC defeat Waikato in Great Race and win Harry Mahon Trophy | ||
| 05/03/2007 | Official Boat Race Party - Saturday 7th April 2007 | ||
| 03/02/2006 | January and February in the Fens | ||
| 12/06/2007 | 9 CUBC members in National Teams. | ||
| 11/07/2003 | Successful Summer | ||
| 22/06/2005 | Richard Staite climbs Everest | ||
| 25/05/2007 | Dan O'Shaughnessy elected CUBC President, 2007-8 | ||
| 09/07/2006 | CUBC athletes do well at Luzern | ||
| 10/07/2007 | Henley Royal Regatta 2007 | ||
| 29/03/2004 | Cambridge win 150th Boat Race by 6 lengths | ||
| 01/10/2007 | Can Moscow be taken in a summer campaign? | ||
| 17/09/2007 | A Winning Start to the 2008 Campaign | ||
| 23/03/2003 | Croatian Fixture | ||
| 18/08/2002 | Cambridge Tour to New Zealand | ||
| 03/02/2006 | 'John Goldie' and 'Steve Fairbairn' in action again on the Tideway | ||
| 11/12/2006 | Trial VIIIs, Friday 8th December - The Boat Race Company Limited's Official Report and Commentary | ||
| 08/05/2009 | Assistant Coach Rob Baker to leave Cambridge University Boat Club | ||
| 11/07/2004 | 2004 round up & Athens Olympics | ||
| 22/07/2008 | Henley Royal Regatta 2008 | ||
| 28/02/2005 | Cambridge race Bydgoszcz University, Poland, in exciting pre Boat Race match | ||
| 12/08/2004 | Date of 2005 Boat Race announced. | ||
| 04/08/2009 | CUBC appoints Assistant Coach | ||
| 06/11/2009 | Cambridge Name Squad for 156th Boat Race | ||
| 27/06/2009 | Henley Royal Regatta 2009 | ||
| 11/07/2009 | Henley Royal Regatta 2009: Update | ||
| 24/03/2009 | Sports Vision - Patrick and Menzies | ||
| 07/03/2009 | With deep sadness, we report the death of Scott Rennie | ||
| 03/10/2005 | Cambridge win E.ON Hanse Cup against international opposition on Germany's Kiel Canal | ||
| 04/03/2008 | 7th and 8th March - Race Days for the Blue Boat and Goldie | ||
| 07/06/2006 | Palmer wins again | ||
| 08/03/2006 | Cambridge's 2006 Boat Race Blue Boat and Goldie crews announced | ||
| 22/09/2008 | Cambridge University Boat Club appoint new Chief Coach | ||
| 02/03/2004 | Trent Head victories | ||
| 31/03/2005 | 151st Boat Race - 27th March 2005. A win for Oxford. | ||
| 03/07/2005 | Successful week for CUBC at Henley Royal Regatta | ||
| 25/11/2005 | British Indoor Rowing Championships | ||
| 01/06/2009 | Deaglan McEachern elected President of Cambridge University Boat Club 2009-2010 | ||
| 15/03/2005 | Cambridge and Germany in pre Boat Race match on the Tideway - Cambridge come through to take a half-length victory | ||
| 09/04/2007 | Cambridge win 153rd Boat Race | ||
| 06/02/2007 | CUBC to race German World Champions | ||
| 11/12/2006 | Trial VIIIs - Friday 8th December 2006 - Crew Lists | ||
| 18/09/2006 | Spanish appetiser | ||
| 27/08/2006 | LBCs' Course | ||
| 17/08/2006 | A Sad Loss | ||
| 05/07/2006 | CUBC crews have a good run at Henley Royal. | ||
| 07/03/2005 | Duncan Holland to be CUBC's Chief Coach in succession to Robin Williams | ||
| 05/06/2007 | Five Wins from Five Races | ||
| 24/05/2006 | Pre-season Camp | ||
| 19/03/2006 | Cambridge race Leander Club in final pre-Boat Race Fixture - Saturday 18th March | ||
| 06/03/2006 | London weekend for the Cambridge Blue Boat and Goldie crews | ||
| 28/10/2005 | Boston Races | ||
| 06/08/2007 | 2008 Boat Race Season | ||
| 26/08/2007 | Colin Scott wins medal in GBR IV- at World U23 Championships at Strathclyde | ||
| 22/06/2005 | Cambridge University Boat Club backs the bid to bring the Olympic Games to London in 2012 | ||
| 08/08/2007 | CUBC to race in Bremen, Germany | ||
| 21/06/2005 | Excellent perormance at Marlow Regatta for Cambridge's Henley | ||
| 22/03/2005 | Goldie takes Head of the River Race Pennant | ||
| 22/07/2002 | National Championships | ||
| 26/10/2004 | Cambridge Win Head of the Charles | ||
| 11/07/2004 | New Zealand Tour beckons | ||
| 08/06/2004 | CUBC President 2004-5 - Andrew Shannon, St Edmund's College | ||
| 19/12/2003 | Cambridge Trial Eights | ||
| 08/08/2007 | A CUBC crew invited to race in Russia | ||
| 02/02/2005 | Boat Race Sponsor Announced - Xchanging Sponsors the Boat Race | ||
| 26/03/2009 | Cambridge Ideas: The Perfect Crew? | ||
| 12/08/2004 | Under 23 Worlds & Olympic news | ||
| 16/09/2004 | World Championships 2003, Milan, Italy - 9 recent and current Cambridge squad members' results | ||
| 19/07/2002 | Henley: ecstasy and agony | ||
| 28/06/2007 | Season 2008 | ||
| 27/08/2006 | CUBC Blues triumph at the World Championships! | ||
| 01/03/2004 | Diamond44 - re-contest of the 1944 Wartime Boat Race at Ely - 28th February 2004 | ||
| 05/03/2004 | Cambridge Announce Crew for 2004 Boat Race | ||
| 17/08/2008 | Olympic glory for CUBC oarsmen | ||
| 16/02/2009 | Chancellor names CUBC’s new boat for the 2009 Boat Race | ||
| 02/03/2009 | CUBC take on the leading British Clubs as part of their Boat Race warm-up programme | ||
| 09/03/2009 | Cambridge University Boat Club to race "The Great Eight" | ||
| 06/04/2003 | Boat Race narrow margin | ||
| 08/09/2005 | Present and former Cambridge Blues out in force at the FISA World Championships in Gifu, Japan. | ||
| 20/03/2009 | CUBC race the Tideway Scullers’ Uber-Eight – one win each | ||
| 24/06/2002 | World Cup triumph at Hazewinkel for GB Coxless IV | ||
| 03/02/2006 | CUBC's Pre-term Training Camp in Spain | ||
| 11/11/2004 | Cambridge Win at Fours Head | ||
| The new season starts at 18:00 on Tuesday 19th September in the Goldie Boathouse. The two weeks before term starts will be used for a multi-discipline camp, running, swimming and cycling will be part of the routine as well as the usual rowing and assessment. | |||
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Cambridge have just returned from Banyoles in northern Spain where we
held our annual New Year camp. A perfect venue, it was the site of the
1992 Olympic Rowing Regatta and benefits from every facility you could
want. The weather smiled on us right through, with flat calm water and
sunshine which allowed a lot of productive training to take place and
improvement of technique. Back in Britain now for the new term, we head into the second half of the 2004 Boat Race programme with a fit, talented squad which is looking forward to racing at the Trent Head on february 22nd and in our warm up fixtures in London, before the 150th Boat Race on March 28th |
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Michaelmas Term finished on Thursday 30th November - well, there are
still lectures and seminars for some, and for others there will be
meetings with supervisors and Directors of Studies to take stock of the
term's work. And CUBC can look back on its term's work too, with some
satisfaction, prior to the culmination next week on Friday 8th December
2006 at 3.00 p.m. with Trial VIIIs over the Putney to Mortlake Boat
Race Course. Visits to Rendsburg and Boston early in the term were valuable but perhaps in a rather more low-key manner than in recent years. At the Canal Cup the national federation crews considerably upped their game. And in Boston for the Head of the Charles Championship VIIIs, starting second behind Head crew Princeton University was always going to make for a tough race. In the event, both Princeton and CUBC expended so much effort early in the race, defending and attacking that vital Head position before the tight bends set in towards the end of the course, that their overall elapsed times suffered, and their finishing places of 10th and 9th respectively were disappointing. Much was learned on both expeditions. At the Indoor Rowing Championships in the Birmingham Arena in early November, CUBC occupied places 1 to 5, and 7, in the BUSA Men's Heavyweight Division. 11 of the 24 CUBC oarsmen competing scored Personal Best times. OUBC did not take part this year. One week later at the IVs Head of the River, CUBC carried off the Elite Coxed IV pennant, beating Leander (with three members of the GBR '05/'06 World Champion coxless IV embarked) by 5 seconds, and OUBC by 27 seconds. Finishing in 11th place overall, this CUBC crew also beat the pennant winning Elite Coxless IV, another Leander/GBR Squad crew containing two former Cambridge Blues and one Goldie colour. Full Term formally concluded for CUBC with a 30k paddle up the Great Ouse and Cam from Ely to Cambridge on 30th November, to enable two crews to compete (for time only) on the following day in the traditional Cambridge Michaelmas end-of-term Fairbairn Cup head race over 4.3k between Jesus College BC Boathouse and Baits Bite Lock. And now, to prepare for Trial VIIIs next week. The year ends with a 5k Erg Test and/or an appearance at ARA Trials at Boston (Lincs, this time), and the Christmas break before reconvening in Banyoles, Catalonia, for the pre-Lent Term warm-weather training camp. |
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Cambridge University Boat Club achieved three major successes on
Saturday 22nd June at The Marlow Regatta. Held this year for the second
time at Dorney Lake (the Eton College six-lane course currently at 1500
metres but being extended to international standard), Marlow is an
opportunity to view crews in the final stages of their preparation for
Henley, and also the last chance for head-to-head racing against top
class opposition prior to the Royal Regatta. Many Transatlantic and
Antipodean crews were in evidence. CUBC won the day's premier events in style. Victories over quality opposition in Elite VIIIs, Elite Coxed IVs and Elite Cox'less IVs were impressive - and a solid foundation for Henley. |
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Cambridge started 4th in the 2003 HOC regatta and finished 3rd behind the USA second boat and the Canadian World Champions. The USA firsr boat which earned a Silver at the Milan World Championships was 4th. Once the full results came out it transpired that we had incurred a time penalty whilst overtaking Northeastern University and this dropped us (disappointingly) to 8th place. A good performance nevertheless and a great week-end away! Another Cambridge eight raced in Dubrovnik, Croatia, the same week end. Pitted against 14 Croatian student boats we qualified for the final and found extra speed in winning it. The second placed crew contained memebers of the Croatian national team. |
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After the Boat Race, the CUBC Blue Boat and Goldie crews invite you to their exclusive party in 'Tantra' on Kingly St in London's West End. Ask people who went last year - the party was enormous fun, 'Tantra' is an amazing private venue for the night, only minutes from Piccadilly Circus. Come and celebrate with the rowers and enjoy these benefits... * VIP room * Double the Dance floor from last year * Group bookings and reserved tables by request * Incredible Drink Specials: Happy Hour Beers courtesy of Sam Adams Brewery (Boston, USA), and Red Bull and Vodka deals * 3am licence for this year's private party Tickets: £10, in advance only Dress Code - Smart Party for 9pm to 3am. Hurry and reserve your tickets now - this party sold out fast last year. Email boatraceball@hotmail.com to reserve your tickets now. |
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Seven CUBC Rowing Blues won medals at the World Rowing Championships in
Munich. Tom James, Josh West and Tom Stallard all rowed in the British
VIII which produced its best performance of the season to finish third
and take the bronze medal. In the German VIII, just ahead in the silver
medal position, Seb Schulte, Thorsten Engelmann and Berndt Heidicker
were all prominent. Kip McDaniel, stroke of the 2006 Cambridge Boat Race crew and bow of the 2007 boat, showed true class by getting a bronze for Canada in the coxed pair (MII+), an event traditionally dominated by the biggest men around. Kip, who just tops 6 feet in height, has a fighting weight of a mere 83 kilos. CUBC was also delighted to see outstanding success for Robin Williams, CUBC Chief Coach 1994-2005. Two of Robin's crews qualified for the Beijing Olympics, Helen Casey and Hester Goodsell in lightweight women's double sculls (LWIIx), and his lightweight men's coxless four (LMIV-), which took the gold medal. At stroke in this latter boat was James Clarke, son of Dickie Clarke, a Blue in the winning Cambridge crew of 1972, and godson of two further Cambridge Blues of the same period! |
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| The Cambridge University Boat Club dealt Waikato University its first defeat in the Great Race on Saturday September 4th, earning the coveted Harry Mahon trophy. The race, now in its third year, draws crews from Cambridge and Oxford on alternate years to compete over a challenging 5000m course, against the stream of the Waikato River in Hamilton, New Zealand. Both Cambridge and Oxford failed in their first attempts, however, a strong Cambridge crew consisting of three members of the winning 2004 Blue Boat, four members of the 2004 Goldie crew (three of which competed for Great Britain in the U23 World Championships in Poland), were able to outsmart the competition as coxswain Peter Rudge steered the crew to victory. The Waikato crew, with two members from the U23 World Championships, and the oarsmen from the 2004 New Zealand Olympic pair, made several unsuccessful attempts to regain the lead. Cambridge held the advantage they took early in the race and defeated Waikato by a margin of 3 lengths. Nine members of the Cambridge Crew, including the spare Oliver de Groot, will return for the 2004 – 2005 Boat Race campaign. Crew Members (from cox to bow): Peter Rudge, Richard Sykes-Popham, James Orme, Steffen Buschbacher, Andrew Shannon, Tom Edwards, Kyle Coveny, Kris Coventry, Ed Sherwood. For further race information, please visit the race website at www.thegreatrace.co.nz | |||
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The
Official Boat Race Party will be held at Number One, Leicester Square,
London W1 on Saturday April 7th, featuring the both Boat Race Crews and
the Goldie and Isis Crews after their respective post-Race Dinners. Reserve YOUR tickets now at www.officialboatraceparty.com See the website for more details about this amazing venue. |
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After leaving bonita Banyoles, triallists returned to the bleak grind
out at Ely. With water freezing in the oar locks, and snow gusts
blowing off the Fens, we dug in for a tough month of solid training on
the Great Ouse. The Club was lucky to be visited again by Australian
coach Tim McLaren, who has been part of the coaching team at the CUBC
for over a decade. Seemingly unaffected by the 40 degrees temperature
difference and 12 hour time zone shift, Tim has had a tremendous impact
during the formative stages of building two Cambridge crews. After a particularly chilly session at Ely in late January, the club was kindly invited to have afternoon tea with the Right Reverend Anthony Russell, Bishop of Ely. The warm welcome and generous hospitality of Bishop Anthony and Mrs Russell was greatly appreciated by us all. Triallists were also introduced to legendary Old Blue, (’51 and ’52) James Crowden who joined us for tea at the Bishop’s House.
With less than two months till the Boat Race the Club is gaining in momentum and we are looking forward to the challenges that lie ahead on our path to the 2nd of April. |
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At
the last count 9 of this year's successful Goldies and Blues were
involved in the campaigns of their respective National Teams. As exams
and the Summer Term come to an end these members are migrating to their
summer bases. From the Blue Boat President Tom James and Kieran West are involved inr the GBR mens sweep programme and Rebecca Dowbiggin is in the mix for the GBR women's team. The two reigning world champions from Germany, Thorsten Engelmann and Sebastian Schulte, are part of the GER 8 again and will be seen at HRR as well as at the World Cups. Kip McDaniel is vying for a seat in the CAN 8 that won World Cup 1 without him as he sat his finals. This crew too will race at HRR. Jake Cornelius the baby of the boat, has been invited to join the USA camp at Princeton and will be hoping for a seat in one of their A boats. Pete Champion is part of the CUBC HRR campaign and will bne part of the GBR effort to put together crews for the new European Championships. Colin Scott of Goldie has recently been selected to join the GBR U23 4- which will race at the next World Cup at Amsterdam. This crew is a hot medal prospect at the World under 23 Championships and Colin has a good chance of carrying on the club's good record at this event. |
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CUBC
has had an active and successful summer programme with international
success for Tom James and james Livingston, who rowed at 6 & 7
respectively in the Blue Boat. They are both currently in the GB team;
Tom, still only 19 years old, has the stroke seat of the eight. James
is in the coxed four but the boat will race coxless through most of the
season. They join previous Cambridge men already in the GB team - Josh
West,Rick Dunn, Kieran West, Tom Stallard, and Christian Cormack. On the domestic front the CUBC has been successful too, with a number of wins at regattas. Crews won at Nottingham City, Metropolitan and Marlow regattas and performed well in Prague and Amsterdam in June. The season was rounded off best, however, at Henley Royal Regatta where both our fours reached the finals, the Britannia crew going on to win, the Visitors crew losing a close final to Galway. As such we were the most successful British University team at Henley this year. |
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Richard Staite, Old Blue and former President of the CUBC, conquered
Mount Everest on 4th June 2005, reaching the summit at 6.30 am. This
year’s Everest season had been a particularly difficult one with
adverse weather conditions resulting in many teams having to stay at
Advance Base Camp for much longer than usual. Richard, (Blue 90-91, Goldie 88 and 92), said it was as hard as anything he has ever done with the final assault being much more exhausting than he had expected. His climb passed without mishap but on his descent he nearly came a cropper on the Second Step when his foot got caught in some rope left behind by a previous attempt. Richard is now safely returned to this country. Richard wore his Cambridge scarf on his final climb in honour of the Club and of Oxford Blue Sandy Irvine, who died on Everest in June 1924 with George Mallory (who himself had stroked Magdalene College’s May Boat).
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At
an election held in the Goldie Boathouse, Cambridge, on Wednesday
afternoon, 23rd May 2007, Dan O'Shaughnessy was elected by assembled
Blues and Goldie colours in residence to be President of CUBC for the
2007-8 year and the 154th Boat Race, to be held on 29th March 2008. Dan is Canadian and attended Brockville Collegiate Institute, Canada, and Syracuse University, NY, USA, before coming up to St Edmund's College in October 2006 to read Economics. He occupied the 2 seat in this year's Cambridge crew which beat Oxford two months ago. |
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In
the final round of this year's World cup, held at the Rotsee, Luzern,
Switzerland, the CUBC athletes had a successful day. Thorsten Engelmann and Seb Schulte, current Blues, and Old Blue Bernd Heidicker sat together in the stern of the German Eight that won impressively. The Germans seem to have thrown off the troubles that beset them mid season and to be back on track to do well at the worlds. Next year's President, Tom James combined with Colin Smith of OUBC to row to a silver in the pair. This was a superb performance in their first big regatta together. |
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The
final of Henley's Stewards' Challenge Cup for world-class coxless IVs
on Sunday afternoon proved a suitable finale to Tom James' CUBC rowing
career. In keeping with tradition, Tom's 2006-7 Presidency of CUBC ended with the Regatta's closing ceremony. A fitting end to his year, as he had been drafted in to Great Britain's double World Championship Gold Medal coxless four in place of the injured Alex Partridge to compete at Henley and at next week's FISA World Cup Regatta at Lucerne. With Tom rowing at 3, this Molesey/Leander composite crew first beat the Australian Institute of Sport in their Saturday heat, and then the Canadian national team crew by just over two lengths to take the trophy in Sunday's final. Also rowing in the final, in the bow seat of the Canadian IV-, was Kip McDaniel, Tom's crewmate in the Cambridge 2006 and 2007 Blue Boats. Earlier in the day, in Sunday's first final, Goldie BC went down to University of London's 'A' crew by one and a half lengths in the Prince Albert Challenge Cup, the event for student men's coxed IVs. Goldie BC is the name reserved for Cambridge University Boat Club crews composed of reserve crew or development squad members. This Goldie crew had beaten Manchester University, Colgate University 'A' crew from the USA, and Imperial College, en route to their final. Marco Espin, Richard Stutt, and David Hopper (2006-7 CUBC spare men), Alistair MacLeod (CUBC 2007 Goldie crew) and Helen Hodge (coxswain, 2006-7 CUBC Development Squad), are all returning to Cambridge in September 2007. |
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Cambridge beat Oxford by 6 lengths in the 150th University Boat Race on Sunday 28th March 2004. See the official Boat Race website for full details. Isis (OUBC) beat Goldie (CUBC) by 2 lengths in the Reserve Crews' race. In addition to the main Boat Race and the Goldie-Isis race, an additional special race to mark the 175th Anniversary of the first Boat Race held in 1829, using equipment replicating that of 175 years ago, was also staged on 28th March. In this race between Putney and Mortlake, a Cambridge crew of Old Blues and Goldie colours beat their Oxford counterparts by four lengths. The Umpire was Chris Davidge, celebrated Oxford oarsman of the 1950s, in the steam launch CONSUTA (built 1898). |
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A
CUBC Eight raced in the Bremen Achter Cup this weekend and won. The
event held to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Bremen Club
comprised a 4.5 km head race and a 0.5km sprint. The CUBC boat beat a good field of German and Polish crews, including the World Champion German Junior crew, comfortably in the long race, and had enough in hand to win the overall classification despite being a little slower over the sprint distance. The race enabled some of the newcomers to the Cambridge squad to be introduced to the CUBC and spend some relaxing time with their new teammates ahead of Tuesday's season start. |
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The
Cambridge Blue Boat raced an eight from Croatia on March 23rd as the
final warm up race before the Boat Race on April 6th. The Croatian crew
contained a number of internationals including members of their
national eight which has been successful at World level in recent
years, including the Sydney Olympics. The two crews raced two pieces over the two halves of the Boat Race course. Cambridge surprised the Croatians off the start. The Croatians are known for being quick starters but being early in the season for them when presumably they have not done as much speed work, it was Cambridge who jumped into the lead. The Croatians fought back to prevent Cambridge breaking clear and maintained the crucial overlap through to Hammersmith. With the first piece ending at Chiswick Eyot Cambridge managed to draw out the lead again and finished with just clear water. In the second piece the form was similar as the crews battled around the upper section of the Boat Race course. Both were excellent races and underline the continuing quality of the Boat Race crews. Croatia go on to race in the Eights Head of the River in a week's time where Leander will be favorites. |
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In
August a Cambridge crew will be travelling to New Zealand for the first
time to race against Waikato University. Waikato and Cambridge will
compete for the Harry Mahon Trophy at a race to be held on September
1st. Harry was of course a Kiwi himself and brought his coaching
talents to bear with spectacular success at Cambridge between 1992 and
2001. The tour has been in planning for some time now and Bryan Gould, Vice Chancellor of Waikato University, Mark Ingle of Campus Services, Matt Taylor and Rob Hammill of trans-Atlantic rowing fame, to name but a few, have been working hard to make it all happen. A report will follow in September. |
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Trial VIIIs Two legends from different eras of the CUBC’s 178 year history battled through difficult conditions from Putney to Mortlake in our traditional Trial VIIIs’ fixture held on the 14th of December, 2005. After an even start through rough water, 'Steve Fairbairn' moved ahead on its favoured bend at Fulham, while 'John Goldie' battled hard on the Surrey station. Both crews dug deep and handled the tough conditions from the Mile Post down to Harrods with gritty determination. 'Steve Fairbairn'’s early move would prove to be decisive however, as they moved to take 'John Goldie'’s water by Hammersmith Bridge. 'John Goldie' mounted attack after attack, maintaining pressure on the leading crew all the way to Chiswick Bridge. Holding their rhythm, 'Steve Fairbairn' won the trial race by a final margin of eight seconds. Both boats paddled together to shake hands in front of Mortlake Anglian & Alpha Boat Club, up river of the finish line, then turned to paddle back to Putney. The race, and the preceding camp, was a great success for the Club, with individuals coming together to row a Cambridge style and rhythm for the first time in VIIIs this season on the Tideway. Our Trial VIIIs dinner was held in the Senior Parlour Room at Gonville and Caius College and our guest speaker was Old Blue and former CUBC President Richard Staite. Richard spoke about his triumphant assault on Everest to an entirely enthralled audience. Special thanks to Richard for his inspirational talk, and to Kieran West for his intermittent contributions… |
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Caroline Searle, Press Officer to The Boat Race Company Limited, posted
this report and comment on CUBC's 2006 Trial VIIIs Race: "High winds and rough water that tested the Oxford’s Trial race yesterday abated enough to allow an excellent race between Cambridge’s two crews - ‘Stay Calm’, stroked by German world champion Thorsten Engelmann, and ‘Just Relax’, led by Sydney gold medallist Kieran West. ‘Stay Calm’, steered by Rebecca Dowbiggin, took an early lead off the start with President Tom James, Canadian international Kristopher (Kip) McDaniel and Colin Scott providing a powerful engine room behind the experienced 25 year old Engelmann. By the Black Buoy, two minutes into the race - they had a length and looked set to row away from their opponents but, on the corner at Fulham, West hit back as Dowbiggin took her crew wide allowing her rival Russell Glenn, last year’s Goldie cox, back into the race. With a second German world champion Sebastian Schulte, American Don Wyper and Peter Champion behind him, West mounted attack after attack, repeatedly closing the gap, but Engelmann was always able to respond and hold on to his advantage. At Hammersmith Bridge, reached in seven minutes ten seconds, they were four seconds ahead. As the crews passed St Paul’s School Glenn steered his crew over towards the Surrey side and at St Paul’s the crews had swapped stations with the crews almost overlapping. But again Engelmann stayed calm and moved out again to lead by two lengths at Barnes bridge. Glenn’s crew continued to fight back and had reduced the deficit at the finish to just four seconds. Cambridge have a strong squad and today’s display will reinforce the opinion of many experts that they are, on paper, the pre-Race favourites. “The Boat Race is all about what happens on the day”, said coach Duncan Holland after the race. “The Race is no respecter of reputations. We know that Oxford will have a good crew”. Holland has been preparing his crews without the normal side-by-side racing in the week leading up to today’s race. “In an Olympic final you have a good idea of your opposition because you will have seen them racing on the circuit”, he said. “But on the Boat Race day your opposition is an unknown. We wanted to replicate that”. “It was a pretty positive build-up for us”, agreed Tom James, the Cambridge President who was in the winning crew. “It meant we came to the race fresh and it was a tough race. They kept attacking and attacking and we had to continually fight them off and we never had more than a quarter length of clear water throughout the race”." |
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Press Release Assistant Coach Rob Baker to leave Cambridge University Boat Club
Rob Baker, Assistant Coach at Cambridge University Boat Club, will leave Cambridge at the end of May 2009. Rob has been appointed as Lead Under 23 Coach for the Irish Team, where he will work with Martin McElroy, Performance Director for Irish Rowing. Robin Waterer, Treasurer of the CUBC, said "we are naturally sad to be losing Rob but very proud that his record at Cambridge has resulted in this recognition of his talents and his new appointment. The Club is also very happy for Rob personally. Rob's appointment with a national rowing federation confirms the Club's tradition of developing top-class talent, and we are sure that he will succeed in this new rôle. He leaves with our very best wishes". Rob Baker joined CUBC in 2001. He quickly achieved coaching success, with the Goldie BC crew that was to win the last "old-style" Britannia Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta. In 2005 Rob took responsibility for Goldie crews in the final stages of their preparation for their annual race against Isis BC. As Acting Chief Coach, while awaiting the arrival of Chris Nilsson in 2008, Rob coached a CUBC IV- to success in the Stewards‟ Challenge Cup at Henley, this crew also being selected to represent GB at the Poznan FISA World Cup Regatta. His 2008 Fours Head of the River campaign was also notable, bringing two pennants back to CUBC, the Elite IV+ being particularly noteworthy in achieving fourth place overall. End For further info please contact Dick Pryce-Jones on +44 1223 354258 |
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Cambridge represented at Olympic Games 2004 has been another successful season for the CUBC. A strong result at the Head of the Charles last October began the season, continuing with the Fours Head of the River in November, the Trent head in February which we won by over 25" from Oxford Brookes, through to the Boat Race itself on March 28th and an epic 6 length victory over Oxford. In the summer season we have had the whole squad continue to row and develop. At Henley we had crews in the Grand Challenge Cup, Stewards, Visitors (x2) and Student Coxd Fours. For Athens we will enjoy watching CUBC squad member Tom James in the Great Britain Eight with Josh West and Tom Stallard, both four times Cambridge Blues, coxed by Christian Cormack (2001); Rick Dunn (2001/2) in the pair, and Kieran West with James Livingston in the coxed pair for the World Championships in Banyoles. Several of the 2004 Goldie Eight (second crew) have been participating in the GB Under 23 trials and look to have their ticket to Poznan in August. We wish them all a successful hunt for medals. Trials for the 2005 Boat Race squad begin in mid September. Details will be sent out shortly to those registered. |
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Cambridge University Boat Club was represented in four events at the recent Henley Royal Regatta, scoring two Sunday Finals victories. 2008 Boat Race Blues Tom Ransley, Pete Marsland, Henry Pelly (President 2008-9) and Tobias Garnett, weighing in at an average of 15 stone a man, won the Stewards' Challenge Cup for Open Cox'less Fours, defeating the composite crew, Volos and Thessaloniki, Greece, in the Sunday final. Another Cambridge Blue blazer was in evidence at Prizegiving. Rebecca Dowbiggin, coxswain of the 2007 and 2008 Cambridge Blue Boats, here representing Leander Club, steered the Leander/Wallingford composite crew to victory in the final of the Remenham Challenge Cup for Open Women's Eights. Earlier in the week, 2007 Goldie colours Spencer Hunsberger and Bartosz Szczyrba had competed in the Silver Goblets and Nickalls' Challenge Cup for Open Cox'less Pairs, and a CUBC Development Squad coxed four (Helen Hodges, James Strawson, Richard Stutt, Joel Jennings and John Clay) had competed in the Prince Albert Challenge Cup for Student crews. |
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Cambridge defeat Polish Eight. With 4 weeks to go until the 151st
University Boat Race the selected Cambridge Blue Boat pronounced itself
satisfied with its performance in a private fixture against an
international eight from Poland on Sunday Feb 27. The Polish crew
contained 5 members from their Olympic eight and three talented
athletes from their gold medal Under 23 quad. The crews raced 2 set pieces, the first from the Boat Race Start to Chiswick Eyot (island at half way) and the second from the Eyot to the Finish. The Cambridge crew won both races although the Poles hung on gamely in the second race. In 2 weeks time a stern test is expected against a German national crew which will come to London to race on March 13th. |
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Edouard Blanc has been appointed to the position of Assistant Coach at Cambridge University Boat Club, in succession to Rob Baker. He will work with Chris Nilsson, CUBC Chief Coach, in producing crews to race against OUBC in the Boat Race and the Goldie-Isis Race each year. Edouard is Swiss, and has been Head Coach of Société Nautique de Geneve since 2004, other than in 2007-08 when he held the appointment of Chief Women's Coach at Durham University Boat Club. He rowed three times at Junior World Championships and Nations Cups, until injury curtailed his competitive rowing career. Edouard holds the Swiss Olympic High Performance Coaching Diploma, and is also experienced in high-performance athlete physiology. Edouard joins us in mid-September and we wish him all good fortune in this appointment. |
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The Cambridge University Boat Club squad for the 2010 Boat Race, sponsored by Xchanging, has been announced. Half of the Cambridge squad of 28 students is made up of home-grown talent from Britain, including last year's President Henry Pelly, one of four returning Blues from 2009. The others are this year's President Deaglan McEachern (USA), last year's bow Rob Weitemeyer (Canada) and Australian Hardy Cubasch. McEachern, 26, is studying History at Hughes Hall and is the first student from the College to be elected to the prestigious post. He rowed at Five in the last Race, opposite his rival President this year. There are also five returning Goldie crew members from 2009 - Britons George Nash, Fred Gill and Joel Jennings; and Americans Code Sternal and Shane O'Mara, whose illness took him out of the 2008 Blue Boat on the eve of the Race. In all, there are eight different nationalities in the Light Blue squad: 14 Britons, four Americans, three Canadians, two Australians, two Germans, one Dutchman, one New Zealander and, for the first time, a Czech. For Oxford there are nine countries represented in a squad of 26 that includes nine Britons, six Americans, three Swiss, two Dutchmen, two Germans, one South African, one Canadian, one Irishman and a female cox from France. The 156th Boat Race sponsored by Xchanging will be staged at 16:30 on Saturday 3 April and screened live on BBC 1 within a two-hour programme. The 2009 Race was televised in 153 countries around the world. |
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Cambridge University Boat Club will be at Henley this year, competing in the Visitors' Challenge Cup (CUBC), the Prince Albert Challenge Cup (Goldie BC) and the Temple Challenge Cup (Goldie BC).
Joe Keohane, CEO of Sharp's Brewery, says "Sharp's is the official beer partner of the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, and the Brewery's ongoing support for Cambridge University Boat Club during the Summer season fits in well with its high profile activity at the annual Boat Race and the Brewery's long running support of local gig rowing in the South West of England. |
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The Regatta’s Flagship event for International VIIIs, the Grand Challenge Cup, was won on Sunday last by a Great Britain composite crew by half a length after a thrilling duel with a United States of America composite. Tom Ransley, CUBC Blue 2008 and 2009, stroked the GB crew, with Peter Marsland, who gained his CUBC Blues with Tom, in the 4 seat. At 3 was James Orme, Goldie 2004 and 2005. James, Tom and Peter now travel to Lucerne for this weekend’s third Rowing World Cup Regatta as members of the GB VIII. |
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Members of this year’s Cambridge University boat crew have benefited from expert eyesight testing and training from Sports Vision, a specialist practice based at Patrick and Menzies opticians in Braintree. The eye specialists tested 20 members of the Light Blue and Goldie squads including rowers and cox at the Goldie Boathouse, Cambridge, to ensure they have perfect vision in time for the race. Gavin Rebello, Director, Sports Vision, explains: “We can help the crew build up their peripheral awareness, and help stop glare affecting their performance on the big day. We’re an East Anglian based company and we want to see Cambridge win.” Sports Vision gave the team crucial advice to increase their eyes’ efficiency and information about contact lenses. Working in conjunction with adidas eyewear, the world’s leading manufacturer of sports eyewear, the team were kitted out with specialist sunglasses, designed to reduce glare, not fog and provide a secure and snug fit. The frame of choice by the team is the T-Sight, which is a wrap around frame, with custom fit options. Henry Pelly is President of the Cambridge University boat club, and he is excited about the opportunities Sports Vision can provide. He says: “A few seconds can be the difference between winning and losing, we’re doing everything we can to make sure we’re in tip top condition, but it’s interesting to see how science can help us too.” |
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With deep sadness, we report that Scott Rennie of Molesey Boat Club died on Friday 6th March. The CUBC Fixture and associated activities planned for tomorrow, Sunday 8th March, are cancelled. Andrew Hodge of MBC wrote as follows: "It is with great sadness that I have to report the tragic death of Scott Rennie. He passed away suddenly this morning, Friday the 6th March, doing what he loved. The Club is honoured to call him a member and proud to have served him as best we could. His attitude to those around him when training and in life was exemplary, and he will be remembered as a man who set the gold standards amongst his peers." Scott was well known and most highly regarded at CUBC. He rowed in the 2006 World Student Games IV- with Pete Champion, Tom Ransley (then at York) and Ben Curtis (ICBC), coached by Rob Baker; and at recent National Trials, he paired with Henry Pelly, Pete Marsland and Fred Gill. Our thoughts are with Scott's family and friends and his club-mates at MBC |
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Cambridge University, the first student Club to be invited to contest
the E.ON Hanse Cup against crews representing national rowing
federations, earlier today won the event in fine style. The race is traditionally staged on Germany's autumn bank holiday weekend over a 12.7 kilometre stretch of the Kiel Canal near Rendsburg, northern Germany. Today, 150,000 spectators lined the course and the event was covered live on national German TV. The 12.7 kilometre 'head-to-head' race is the climax and flagship event of a weekend of rowing activity here, including a 500 metre sprint tournament on Saturday and an ergometer championship on Sunday, plus dragon boat and other racing. Lining up against their opposition, all representative national VIIIs, CUBC settled quickly and lead jointly after 2 kilometres, rowing stroke for stroke with the German VIII for the next 9 kilometres. A threat from the Dutch VIII (which had led off the start) faded, leaving them and the US VIIIs locked into their own race, a mere one and a half lengths down for much of the course, for third and fourth places. Approaching the finish, CUBC moved well clear to win by a six length margin in 38m 7s, Germany coming in second in 38m 25s with the US third (38m 52s), Holland fourth in 39m 41s and GB trailing in as 'lanterne rouge' in 41m 17s. For a full description of the three-day Bank Holiday event, see http://www.eonhansecup.de/en/. This is the German description of the highlight event, the 12.7k marathon race: "Mit großer Spannung haben die rund 150.000 Zuschauer entlang der Rennstrecke am Nord-Ostsee-Kanal den großen Wettstreit beim E.ON Hanse-Cup 2005 erwartet. Waren doch dieses Jahr nicht nur die großen Internationalen Achter, Weltmeister USA, die dritten der WM - Deutschland, Großbritannien und Niederlande mit von der Partie, sondern erstmals auch der Legendäre Achter aus Cambridge welcher den härtesten Rudermarathon der Welt für sich entschied (38:06.35). Gefolgt vom Deutschland-Achter auf Platz zwei (38:24.83). Platz drei ging in diesem Jahr an die USA (38:51.71). Vierter wurden die Niederlande (39:40.88) vor Großbritannien (41:17.37) auf Platz fünf."
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CUBC crews will race on the Tideway on Friday and Saturday this week. On Friday, the Blue Boat will race an All-Star crew from Molesey Boat Club over the Championship Course from Putney to Mortlake. This Race will start at 1225 from the University Stone at Putney. Next day, Saturday, and Goldie BC, Cambridge's reserve crew, will race Molesey BC's second crew, itself preparing for the Tideway Head of the River one week later. This Goldie/Molesey BC Fixture will take the same format as the preceding day's race, starting this time at 1245 at the University Stone. |
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CUBC
races this year under the guidance of new coach Duncan Holland. From
New Zealand, Duncan joined Cambridge University Boat Club as Head Coach
in April of last year after previous top-flight experience with Swiss,
Dutch and New Zealand crews amongst others. Commenting on the challenge ahead, Duncan said: "We are focussing on boatspeed and getting it right on the day. I know it is a sporting cliche, but our goal is to 'control the controllables'. At the moment we are working on economy of movement; going fast without using excessive energy, and the psychology of peaking at the right moment. Oxford will be fast, we know that. We are intending to be faster". Duncan's crew will go to the line packed with international-class oarsmen. Canadian Kip McDaniel will stroke the boat which will include Britain's 2000 Olympic champion and former Cambridge President, Kieran West, who has returned to Cambridge to study for a Doctorate, as well as GB Olympian and engineering undergraduate, Tom James. He can also call upon the considerable power and expertise offered by a trio of German international medallists, in Sebastian Schulte, Sebastian Thormann (a qualified doctor) and Berliner Thorsten Engelmann. Cambridge lead the series overall since 1829 by 78 wins over Oxford to 72 lost. THE 2006 CAMBRIDGE BLUE BOAT CREW: Bow - Luke Walton (26) St Edmund's College 2 - Tom Edwards (28) Gonville & Caius College 3 - Sebastian Thormann (30) Peterhouse 4 - Thorsten Engelmann (24) St Edmund's College 5 - Sebastian Schulte (27) Gonville & Caius College 6 - Kieran West (28) Pembroke College 7 - Tom James (21) Trinity Hall Stroke - Kip McDaniel (24) St Edmund's College Cox - Peter Rudge (24) Hughes Hall THE 2006 CUBC GOLDIE CREW: Bow - Sam Pearson (24) Jesus College 2 - Charlie Palmer (27) Hughes Hall 3 - Tim Perkins (27) Jesus College 4 - Ian Coveny (31) Hughes Hall 5 - Kyle Coveny (25) Hughes Hall 6 - Don Wyper (23) St Edmund's College 7 - Ed Sherwood (21) Jesus College Stroke - Jasper Hasell (24) Pembroke College Cox - Russell Glenn (24) Darwin College For further biog details, and photographs, visit http://www.theboatrace.org/ |
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Rob Baker, who has acted as interim Chief Coach since the departure of Duncan Holland in May, will carry on with the CUBC as part of Chris’ coaching team. Rob led a very successful summer rowing season in 2008 which saw a CUBC crew represent GB in a World Cup regatta and win the Stewards’ Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta. Highlights of Chris Nilsson’s coaching career include:
2004-2008: National coach with Rowing New Zealand, coaching the men’s coxless four and heavyweight double sculls at the Beijing Olympics Chris’ appointment concludes a thorough search process that has run through the summer of 2008. The selection panel was chaired by Wayne Pommen (President 2004) and coordinated by Will Dawkins (Blue 1978). The panel was assisted by a number of CUBC oarsmen and friends of the Club worldwide. An original list of over 60 potential candidates yielded a very strong final six from several different countries. Chris Nilsson rowed for New Zealand at the 1972 Munich Olympics, since when he has gained nearly 30 years of coaching experience. Chris has a strong coaching track record at both international and university level, including two world championship gold medals. Chris is widely respected by the athletes he has coached, as well as his colleagues in the coaching world. Importantly, Chris knows the unique nature of the Boat Race’s challenging Championship Course between Putney and Mortlake, having coached both at Thames Rowing Club and at OUBC. Chris commented, “I am hugely honoured to have been appointed by the CUBC selection panel. I'm really looking forward to meeting the squad next week and I look forward to the challenge of leading the CUBC.” Henry Pelly, incoming CUBC President, commented, “Chris Nilsson’s track record speaks for itself. We are all looking forward to working with him in establishing the CUBC as the best rowing club in the world for developing elite athletes. He will have the full confidence of the squad as we get ready to take on Oxford in the 2009 Boat Race.” |
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The
CUBC first and second Eights defended their 2003 wins at the Trent Head
by repeating the success in 2004 on February 22nd. The Spare four also
won their category, Senior 3 coxed fours. Conditions were challenging with strong winds which lead to a temporary postponement shortly before race time. However, the go-ahead was eventually received and the Cambridge Blue Boat, designate, started first and opened up a lead of 26" over Oxford Brookes who started second. Nottingham & Union were third and Goldie (Cambridge scond crew) came in fourth. Attention now turns to match racing with Boat Race fixtures against Molesey Boat Club on March 7th and Leander Club on March 13th. The Boat Race is on March 28th 2004. |
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Oxford won the 2005 Boat Race, sponsored by Xchanging, by two lengths
in 16 minutes 42 seconds. They came home six seconds ahead of Cambridge
in the third fastest time ever. The Dark Blues made a strong start on the Surrey station. Cambridge, on Middlesex, drew back to be level at the Mile Post, and the crews overlapped through Hammersmith Bridge. At Chiswick Steps, with more than half the race gone, Oxford made a decisive move, drawing away to reduce Cambridge's overall series lead which now stands at 78 wins to Cambridge, 72 to Oxford, with a dead heat in 1877, since the first race in 1829. |
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Cambridge University Boat Club won Henley Royal Regatta's Ladies' Plate Challenge Trophy in fine style on Sunday, beating Leander Club in the final by one and three-quarters lengths on a bright and breezy afternoon after leading all the way. In the first round CUBC met Harvard University, who suffered an early setback when a crew-member parted company with his seat in the first few strokes. In the semi-final CUBC met Brown University Alumni, USA. An Ivy League university in Rhode Island, Brown has a formidable reputation in US college rowing. Joel Scrogin and Luke McGee, both recent Oxford Blues and presently coaches at Brown, and Jamie Koven, a former winner of the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley, featured in the impressive Brown Alumni line-up. This was a stern test for both crews, the lead changing several times and neither crew gaining more than a canvas lead at any point. At the finish, Cambridge's determination prevailed, the winning margin being 3 feet. Stephanie Richards, alumnus of 1st and 3rd Trinity BC, Cambridge, and Goldie cox in the 2002 Goldie-Isis Race, steered the Leander crew. This CUBC crew started its summer campaign at Marlow Regatta and contained seven oarsmen and the coxswain from the record-breaking 2005 Goldie crew which beat Isis by 5 lengths in the Boat Race Reserve Crews' race in March. The eighth oarsman was Tom Edwards, who rowed in the 2005 Cambridge Blue Boat against Oxford. Tom has been elected President of the CUBC in succession to Andrew Shannon and will lead the 2006 Light Blue Boat Race campaign against Oxford University Boat Club. CUBC's Ladies' Plate crew was: Bow - Ed Sherwood (Jesus College); 2 - Colin Scott (Trinity Hall); 3 - Eamonn Joyce (Trinity Hall); 4 - Kyle Coveny (Hughes Hall); 5 - James Orme (Jesus College); 6 - Tom Edwards (Gonville and Caius College); 7 - Andrew Shannon (St Edmund's College); Stroke - Volker Utesch (St Edmund's College); cox - Russ Glenn (Darwin College). Other successes for CUBC members at Henley this year included the following. Sebastian Schulte (Gonville and Caius College) rowed in the victorious Dortmund Rowing Center (Germany's national rowing team) crew which won the flagship Grand Challenge Cup for VIIIs, beating the GB National Squad VIII in the final. Charlie Palmer of Hughes Hall (rowing as a member of Cantabrigian Rowing Club) and Kris Coventry of Queens' College Boat Club met in the semi-final of the Diamond Challenge Sculls. Charlie took the semi by one length from Kris and went on to meet W R Allen of Princeton Training Center, US. Allen, a gold medallist at last year's Athens Olympics as a member of the US VIII, beat Charlie, who is returning to Cambridge for the 2005-6 academic year, by three lengths in the Diamonds' final. In the Silver Goblets and Nickalls' Challenge Cup for cox'less pairs, Kieran West (alumnus of Christ's College) and Josh West (Gonville and Caius College), both former Cambridge Blues and current members of the GB national rowing team, met the eventual winners of the event, Di Clemente and Cech of South Africa, in the semi-final. The South Africans, winners of this event last year and bronze medallists in cox'less pairs at the Athens Olympics, took the semi final by two and a half lengths from Kieran and Josh, moving on to the final which they won by four lengths.
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CUBC's squad of 26 oarsmen/coxswains recorded 9 'personal best' times
at yesterday's Indoor Rowing Championships at the National Indoor
Arena, Birmingham. Tom Edwards, President, did not compete due to
illness. 11 CUBC men finished in the top 32 of the Men's BUSA Heavyweight Division, as follows: 2nd - Thorsten Engelmann - 5:48.9; 3rd - Kieran West - 5:49.0; 4th - Sebastian Schulte - 5:53.1; 7th - Sebastian Thormann - 5:57.9; 11th - Ian Coveny - 5:59.5; 16th - Kyle Coveny - 6:05.1; 19th - Don Wyper - 6:05.7; 21st - Sam Pearson - 6:06.1; 24th - Charlie Palmer - 6:06.5; 31st - Pete Champion - 6:07.7; 32nd - Tom James - 6:08.1. Outright winner of the Men's Heavyweight division was OUBC's Jamie Schroeder, in 5:44.0. The Men's BUSA Lightweight Division was won by Doug Perrin of Cambridge University Lightweight Rowing Club in the time of 6:20.5. Full results can be found at http://www.concept2.co.uk/birc/results.php |
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Deaglan declined to comment as to whether working on Senator Obama's election team in 2008 had given him the edge in hustings.
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On
Sunday 13 March, with two weeks to go before the 2005 race against
Oxford, the Cambridge Blue Boat raced the Germany National Squad VIII
from the Boat Race Start to Chiswick Steps (just over half of the full
Boat Race course). Conditions were good for most of the piece with a
slight Tideway 'popple' after Hammersmith. Cambridge were on the
Middlesex station and the following supporters' launches were in for a
real treat. With both crews settling at 36 up to the Mile Post and at
35-ish thereafter, Germany took a slight lead off the start. They held
this until Cambridge attacked on the Middlesex bend to come back onto
level terms, but once the burst was finished Germany re-established the
gap at about a third to a half a boat's length. The status quo was maintained with both boats showing an easy rhythm and good length. At Hammersmith Bridge, Cambridge, on the outside of the sharp bend, maintained their small deficit without losing further ground. Germany now attacked again and again in an attemt to get clear by St Paul's School Boathouse. But Cambridge doggedly withstood the pressure, and then themselves turned on the heat . To considerable vocal encouragement from the following launches, Cambridge moved smoothly up on Germany and rowed through them along Chiswick Eyot, ending a terrific contest half a length to the good. |
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Cambridge won the 153rd Boat Race on 7th April 2007 by one and a
quarter lengths in a time of 17:49 in fair, sunny conditions. Oxford had started well and held off the Light Blues for the early part of the Race. Cambridge recovered, got into their rhythm, and were a length ahead by Barnes Bridge. Cambridge now lead the overall series by 79-73 (with one dead heat since 1829) and their win prevented Oxford, winners in 2005 and 2006, from registering a hat-trick. The 2008 Race will be on Saturday March 29th at 17.15. In the reserves race, Goldie (Cambridge) beat Isis (Oxford) by 4 lengths in the time of 17:48, having led from the first stroke. |
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The details of the CUBC pre Boat Race fixtures have been announced. March 3rd 12:20 Goldie will race a yet to be announced opponent. 12:50 the Blue Boat will take on the World Champion German 8. March 23rd 15:45 The Blue Boat will race Molesey. March 24th 15:25 Goldie will race a yet to be confirmed opponent. |
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"STAY CALM" Bow. David Hopper - Peterhouse 2. Tobias Garnett - Trinity 3. Jacob Cornelius - Emmanuel 4. Alastair MacLeod - St Catharine's 5. Tom James - Trinty Hall 6. Colin Scott - Trinity Hall 7. Kristopher McDaniel - St Edmund's Str. Thorsten Engelmann - St Edmund's Cox. Rebecca Dowbiggin - Emmanuel "JUST RELAX" Bow. David Billings - Caius 2. Dan O’Shaughnessy - St Edmund's 3. Johannes Kromdijk - Clare 4. Oliver de Groot - Caius 5. Peter Champion - St Edmund's 6. Don Wyper - St Edmund's 7. Sebastian Schulte - Caius Str. Kieran West - Pembroke Cox. Russell Glenn - Darwin |
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The
first skirmish of the 2007 Boat Race season was won by CUBC at the
weekend. CUBC and OUBC were guests at an event in Santander, Cantabria,
Spain, and raced each other and a local club Astilleros. In the eights
event the locals won narrowly from CUBC who headed Oxford in tricky
water conditions. As a highlight of the event the two clubs went head to head in the traditional craft, traineras, which are sea-going fixed seat racing boats with 13 crew members. In this race CUBC trimphed by a clear margin. |
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The
three CUBC crews racing at HRR all made it as far as the semifinals
with Charlie Palmer going one better and racing World champion Mahe
Drysdale in the final of the Diamond Sculls. The Goblets pair of Wyper
and pearson fell to the top ranked Serbian pair. The young crew in the
Prince Albert were a good advertisement for the newly revitalised
Development Squad and showed high promise for the future. Palmer has been named to the GB Team for the FISU student games in the single and will be coached by Goldie mentor Rob Baker. Pete Champion who was a reserve this year is still in the mix for the FISU team and looks a good bet to be in the 4+. |
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Cambridge University Boat Club has appointed Duncan Holland as Chief
Coach. Duncan will take over from Robin Williams who remains in charge
of the crews for his 11th Boat Race on March 27th. Duncan has 20 years experience in the development of high performance rowing squads, including a close involvement with the Dutch, Swiss and New Zealand National Teams. Most recently he has been working with the Dutch Women’s group, including the eight that won a medal in Athens. Duncan was born in the UK but brought up in New Zealand, where he rowed at international level between 1973 and 1980. At Cambridge Duncan will be responsible for all aspects of the development of crews to win the Boat Race. In addition he will prepare Cambridge crews for other events during the year, and help individual athletes to gain International selection. He will formally take up his appointment in April. Said Duncan: “I am greatly looking forward to working with the CUBC. The combination of a group of excellent athletes, an extremely tough race, and a club that puts a premium on boat moving skills presents a unique and exciting challenge.” David Gillard, who rowed for Cambridge in the Boat Race in 1991-93, led the search and selection team. He feels that “Duncan has just the mix of skills and experience we are looking for to build on our recent successes and to take Cambridge forward.” CUBC President Andrew Shannon is delighted. “Duncan understands the way we row at Cambridge, and will be able to continue Robin Williams’ good work. It is an added bonus that he will be able to start right away and help us with our summer programme. I am also pleased that we have been able to get the appointment settled now, so that we can concentrate on beating Oxford in this year’s races." |
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got its Henley campaign off to a good start on Saturday at the
Metropolitan Regatta. All five of the crews entered won. The highlight was the Sen 1 eight where a CUBC crew beat a tidy London crew and looked sharp. Two of this year's Boatrace reserves, David Barst and Richard Stutt won Sen 2 pairs in their first competitive outing in a 2-. Marco Espin showed good form to win three races, Light 1x on Saturday, Sen 1x on Sunday and, together with Charlie Palmer, the Elite 2x on Sunday. |
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Taken from "theboatrace.org" report with minr revisions, including revealing the Umpire's true identity: "Cambridge enjoy tussle with Leander... Cambridge looked sharp and rhythmic on Saturday in a brisk contest against Leander from Putney to Chiswick Steps, which was unfortunately marred by a clash which denied the crews testing their mettle where it mattered most. Leander took the Surrey station, giving them the outside of the first long bend in a cold following wind. Cambridge went off at higher rate and were five seats ahead long before they settled to 35. Beautifully together, they stretched their lead to seven seats by Fulham Football ground but never achieved clear water. Cambridge stroke Kip McDaniel spent most of the way level with Toby Garbett in Leander’s bow seat. Leander were feeling their way, but with Olympic champions Steve Williams at stroke and world champions Alex Partridge at 7 and Peter Reed at 5, they made made up ground going into Hammersmith Bridge, and emerged from it turning into the bend in their favour with oars blazing. Cambridge were warned by umpire Pete Bridge before the bridge, and Leander just after it, when knitting blades made contact. Matt Langridge, Leander’s number 3, lost hold of his oar, and Leander were suddenly a broken melee. When Bridge restarted the crews, Cambridge were about half a length ahead, and they finished just under a length in front at Chiswick Steps. Duncan Holland, Cambridge’s coach, said: ‘It was an excellent fixture, side-by-side against a fast, tough crew. If the clash hadn’t occurred, I think we’d have gone away.’ Cambridge also had an Olympic champion on board in Kieran West, and matched Leander international for international." Goldie raced a Tideway Scullers' School VIII in their final pre-Goldie/Isis Race fixture. Goldie took the honours in two pieces, the first by a considerable distance, the second by a more restrained margin against a more disciplined and controlled TSS performance. Goldie race Isis over the Championship Course from Putney to Mortlake at 4.05 p.m. on Sunday 2nd April 2006, half an hour before the Cambridge and Oxford Blue Boats meet in the Boat Race at 4.35 p.m. |
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In
preparation for their races agains Oxford on 2nd April, the Cambridge
crew and their reserves, Goldie, took on class opposition on the
Tideway over the weekend. On a bitterly cold but bright Saturday afternoon, Goldie raced a predominantly lightweight London Rowing Club crew containing many international aspirants. Goldie rowed two pieces with LRC, taking a 12 seconds lead in the first from the University Stone to Chiswick Steps, and then 9 seconds in the second from Chiswick Eyot to the Boat Race finish at Mortlake. Sunday afternoon promised challenging wind-over-tide conditions, the Tideway at its least benevolent, but in the event the brisk westerly had eased considerably by the time the Cambridge crew raced their opposition, Molesey Boat Club. Molesey, with several distinguished internationals aboard, including current world champion Andy Triggs-Hodge, 2005 Oxford crew-mate coxswain Acer Nethercott, and Cambridge Blue ('98, '99) Toby Wallace, went down by three and a half lengths in the first race from Putney to the St Paul's School boathouse. Changing stations for the second row from the Bandstand to the Boat Race finish at Mortlake, Cambridge rowed round the outside of the Barnes Surrey bend to take a two length victory. Chief Coach Duncan Holland expressed himself satisfied with the weekend's work, describing it as valuable preparation for the Boat Race and Goldie-Isis Race to come in a month's time. On Saturday 18th March, the Cambridge crews will again be on the Tideway in the final stages of their preparation. With two weeks to go before their races, the Blue Boat will race Leander Club, and Goldie will face Tideway Scullers' School. |
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CUBC
was in action at two widely spaced Bostons last weekend. At Boston,
Lincolshire 3 of the current squad members raced in the first GB Trial
of the season. All of them placed in the top 20 which establishes their
credentials for places in the various GB teams which wil be selected in
the spring. In Boston, Massachussetts a CUBC selection was defending its headship at the Head of the Charles. This is reputedly the biggest rowing regatta in the world with some 7500 competitors. The VIII narrowly failed to defend the title, beaing beaten by the superb crew from Princeton. Some consolation was on offer from beating the Netherlands crew, an Italian club with 6 members of the ITA World championships silver medal crew on board and a Leander boat full of world ranked oarsmen. The trip was made possible by assistance from Tourism Massachussetts and both parties have expressed a keenness to work together again next year. |
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Cambridge University Boat Club's 2007-2008 season starts at 6:00 p.m on Tuesday September 18th in the Captains' Room at the Goldie Boathouse. There will be a welcoming address by the President, Dan O'Shaughnessy, and a brief introduction to the Club on the Tuesday evening. The pre-term training camp starts the following morning. Potential triallists for the 2008 Blue Boat and Goldie crew are strongly advised to attend this 2 week camp before term starts. The camp will include running, swimming and cycling as well as the usual rowing and assessment. Details are available from Duncan Holland, Chief Coach - duncan@cubc.org.uk |
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The
Great Britain rowing team performed well at the recent Under-23 World
Championships at Strathclyde, Scotland. Eleven crews made the finals
and seven took home medals, including six bronzes and one gold. One of
the bronze medals was won by the heavyweight men's four, which included
Colin Scott (Goldie '04, '05, '07). This crew had previously competed
at the second World Cup in Amsterdam, where they won the C final. In their U23 semifinal, the crew had an uncharacteristically slow start and at 700m found themselves level with New Zealand and Poland, behind a pack of three, with three qualifying places up for grabs. After spotting their perilous position, the crew changed their race plan on the run, and broke into the leading pack with New Zealand, securing their place in the final behind Serbia. Another slow start in their final left the GB boat in a similar position, but this time they had learnt from the GB 8+ the day before and had copied their successful "fastest possible 500" through the middle. This created the momentum to drive through the field and finally overtake Serbia to take the third place. Going through the finish line, a very classy German four took Gold, New Zealand who had a really gutsy race with a very impressive first 1000 took Silver, and a very happy GB four took Bronze. |
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CUBC
has been invited to compete in a Regatta in Bremen, Germany, on the
15th of September. Taking place just before the start of the 2008 Boat
Race campaign, the crew will be intent on starting the programme on a
high note with wins in the 4000m Head Race and the 500m Sprint event
for which they have been entered. '98 Cambridge Blue Marc Weber has helped organise the race in his former home town. The sprint event is part of an intensive Regatta weekend. |
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CUBC's Henley Royal Regatta Ladies' Plate crew raced at Marlow Regatta
on Saturday 18th June, the traditional pre-Henley fixture now held at
Dorney Lake on the international course recently used for the first
round of the 2005 Rowing World Cup. This Cambridge crew contains seven oarsmen and the coxswain from the 2005 Goldie (reserve) crew which beat Isis by five lengths in the record time of 16 minutes 48 seconds back in March. Now, in a seven boat straight final at Marlow, Cambridge (rating 37 strokes per minute over much of the course to Oxford's 39) restricted the Oxford crew, comprised of three-quarters of the 2005 Oxford Blue Boat plus two Blues from earlier years, to a four second advantage, or just over one length. A considerably depleted Leander Club crew (shorn of many of the Internationals who had driven it to success in the Head of the River Race earlier in the year) was placed third. This performance at Marlow gives Cambridge a solid foundation on which to build further in their preparations for success at Henley. |
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The
Head of the River Race on 19th March, rowed over the full Boat Race
course of 4 miles 374 yards but in the reverse direction from Mortlake
to Putney, was the first event of the year for CUBC's Development Squad
crew, and a first experience of the Thames Tideway for many of its
members Most of the crew learned to row after arriving as students at Cambridge. After initial instruction and coaching at their College Boat Clubs, these rowers were identified by CUBC coach Mark Fangen-Hall as having the potential to take their rowing to a higher level. Rowing as Goldie Boat Club, they finished in a highly creditable 68th place and a time of 19 minutes 9.39 seconds, good enough to give them the Senior 4 Pennant, half a second behind neighbouring Rob Roy Boat Club's 1st (Senior 2) crew - a most satisfying result for them and their coaches, Mark and 2004 Goldie oarsman Jon Davies. |
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Cambridge only took three athletes to the Nationals in Nottingham on
July 20/21 but were delighted with the results. Ewan Robson and Piers
Curle, both relatively inexperienced scullers combined to race in the
Men's Double sculls. From an entry of 19 crews they finished an
excellent 4th place behind some more established units. Jon Alexander raced in the Under 23 single event. Winning his heat he went straight to the final where he had a pitched battle with Gavin Shaw from Aberdeen University and despite a strong last 250m finished just a few feet behind to take a Silver medal. |
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Sunday October 24th 2004 - Cambridge won the Championship Eights at the
40th Head of the Charles in Boston USA. This was a tremendous result in
its own right and a strong start to the 2005 Boat race campaign. It
improved on our result from 2003 when we recorded the third fastest
time behind the Canadian and US eights. This year the USA's Olympic Champions decided to enjoy the fruits of success by having a row past rather than competing in the regatta, but the Silver medallists from Holland and the second string US crews did race, along with top University boats from Princeton, Cal Berkeley, Northeastern, and Oxford Brookes from the UK with many of their successful internationals on board. Cambridge chased the Dutch all the way along the course gradually reducing their lead and by the last bridge had almost caught them. The US eight were already 11" down on Cambridge when their cox steered them into the last bridge on the course. The final margin of victory was 3" over the Dutch with Oxford Brookes (mistakingly identified by the commentator as Oxford) 28" adrift. This is the first year for a long while that the title has gone to a university crew rather than a national team. |
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| Cambridge will again be sending an eight to race in New Zealand on September 4th 2004. The 10 day visit, organised by Boathouse Events, aka Trans-Atlantic rower and ex-NZ Lightweight International, Rob Hammil, incorporates a wonderful camp at the famous Lake Karapiro before moving in to the town of Hamilton where the races take place. In 2002 an enthusiastic crowd of 15,000 spectators lined the banks to see the spectacle. Watch this space for a full report in September. | |||
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Andrew Shannon, St Edmund's College has been elected to be President of
Cambridge University Boat Club for the 2004-5 year. He will take up his
duties from Wayne Pommen, Pembroke College, after Henley Royal Regatta
in July. At the same election, Steffen Buschbacher of St Catharine's College was elected Vice President. Steffen will take over from Nate Kirk, St Edmund's College |
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Friday December 19th - Cambridge Trial Eights race took place over the
Boat Race course. two matched eights - "Guns" and "Roses" - raced off
the Start at the unlikely time of 0820 (due to tidal conditions)
followed by a bevvy of Press and supporters. Roses contained 2004 CUBC
President, Wayne Pommen, rowing behind Goldie winning stroke, Nate
Kirk, and ably backed up by returning squad members from 2003 as well
as new comers. Guns was stroked by German Olympic athlete, Sebastian
Mayer, with 2003 Blue, Hugo Mallinson at 7. Some last minute re-shuffling of crews due to illness in the lead up to the race failed to disturb Roses who powered off the start and soon developed a useful lead. Guns held on over the first mile but only just, and when the big Hammersmith bend came into play contact was fully broken although a wide steering line by Yale cox, Steven Cheng, momentarily made it look as thogh Guns might have a last chance. Roses were alert to this, however, and soon extended their lead from slightly over a length to open water eventually crossing the Finish line 2 miles later a full 11 seconds clear. The race was the final event of the first term, a good culmination of three months of hard work ad a good way to finish before a few days Christmas rest |
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Cambridge University Boat Club will make its first visit on a rowing trip to Russia this summer. Cambridge has been invited to send an eight to compete in a "Race of Champions" over a 3.5km course against Moscow State University, the University of Washington (USA), and Oxford University Boat Club, in early September. The course on the Moskva River, which will take place in late evening, will be from the Moscow Sate University to the Temple of Christ the Saviour, and will pass the famous Red Square and Kremlin. The event is being staged to mark the 860th anniversary of the foundation of the city of Moscow, and the 140th anniversary of the foundation of the First Imperial Rowing Club in Russia. |
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The above film was created as part of the "Cambridge Ideas" series of podcasts and films as part of the Cambridge University 800th Anniversary Celebrations, and follows on from Mark de Rond's ethnographic work with CUBC which led to his book "The last amateurs: to hell and back with the Cambridge Boat Race crew". More information on the 800th Anniversary Celebrations can be found at http://www.800.cam.ac.uk. |
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Three members of the Cambridge squad rowed in Poznan last week at the
Under 23 World Championships. Richard Sykes-Popham, James Orme and Ed
Sherwood all rowed in the Goldie eight against Isis back in March, and
again rowed together in Poland in the 4- with Oxford Blue, David
Livingston. The crew had three weeks in this combination to prepare and performed well in making the A final out of a field of 11 crews. In the Final the pace proved a little too hot and after 1000m the front crews broke clear in a private battle for Gold, which Croatia won. Several recent Cambridge rowers will be representing Great Britain in Athens this week. Richard Dunn in the 2-, Tom James, Josh West in the 8+, along with cox Christian Cormack. Kieran West and James Livingston attend as spares. 2002 Blue Stuart Welch rows in the Australian 8. |
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Nine
recent and current Cambridge squad members competed at the recent
senior World Rowing Championships at the Idroscalo, Milan. This is how
they fared: Great Britain Coxless Four - SILVER MEDAL Josh West - Blue 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Rick Dunn - Blue 2001, 2002 Great Britain Coxed Four - SILVER MEDAL Tom Stallard - Blue 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Kieran West - Goldie 1998, Blue 1999, 2001 James Livingston - Goldie 2000, 2001, Blue 2002, 2003 Great Britain Eight - BRONZE MEDAL Christian Cormack - Blue 2001 Tom James - Blue 2003 Australia Coxless Four - FOURTH PLACE Stuart Welch - Blue 2002 Canada Coxless Pair - SIXTH PLACE Wayne Pommen - 'injured Blue' 2003, President CUBC 2003-4 Congratulations to all of them - and good luck for Athens 2004 |
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Henley held high hopes this year : Cambridge were to be represented in
the Grand, Stewards, Prince Philip, Visitors, and Britannia. Illness
took its toll unfortunately and the Stewards four which had been doing
so well in the World Cup races was forced to withdraw. They did not
race in Lucerne either. The Grand was dominated by the Canadians and Germans with no way through for the GB eight. In the Prince Philip we reached the final and led the GB Squad four from Molesey/Oxford Brookes in the early stages. We could not hold off their powerful rhythm, however, and eventually succumbed by two lengths. The Visitors went rather better. The four defeated two seeded crews and a Dutch crew to reach the final. They produced a fine race against Imperial/Oxford Brookes leading from start to finish but in a close, tough race. After the race had been given the white flag and celebrations had begun an appeal was lodged by the opposition. With fewer than 30 strokes to go in the race both crews had rowed though a small flock of geese on the course. This was the cause of the objection. Despite the official report giving a clean result to Cambridge, the umpire ordered a re-row at the end of Sunday's racing. Having battled with illness in the Visitors crew all week this proved one race too many and sadly the victory from the 'real' final could not be repeated. This was a major disappointment and considered by many to be an unfair result. |
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CUBC's 2007-2008 season will start at 18:00 on Tuesday September 18th
in the Captains' Room at the Goldie Boathouse. There will be a
welcoming address by the President, Dan O'Shaughnessy, and a brief
introduction to the Club on the Tuesday evening. The pre-term training
camp will start the following morning. Potential triallists for the 2008 Blue Boat and Goldie crew are strongly advised to attend the 2 week camp. Details are available from Duncan Holland, Chief Coach, duncan@cubc.org.uk |
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The
German crew topped a good season with a superb win in the men's eight
at the world championships today. Three Cambridge men sat in the stern
end of the boat; Seb Schulte, 2005, 2006; Thorsten Engelmann 2006 and
Bernd Heidicker 2005. Five other blues produced good performances at these championships. Kieran West, Josh West and Tom Stallard were all in the GBR eight which produced a solid 5th and Tom James, this year's president was in the GBR 2- which came a creditable 6th. Kip McDaniel stroked the CAN eight in the B final. |
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60
years after the only Boat Race ever to be held away from the River
Thames had resulted in a three-quarters of a length victory for Oxford,
that historic race was re-contested at Queen Adelaide on the River
Great Ouse. On Saturday 28th February 2004, on a good fenland day (snow, hail, wind - but bright sunshine for the race), the tables were turned as a crew of Cambridge veteran oarsmen (average age not less than 50 years) beat a similar Oxford crew by 5 lengths over the original course of one and a half miles. The race was umpired by Sydney Olympics hero Tim Foster MBE, who himself learned to row on the River Great Ouse at Bedford Modern School. The Finish Judge was Mr Martin Whitworth, who rowed at number 4 in the 1944 Cambridge crew. Altogether 6 participants of that 1944 race were present, including Mr Donald Ramsay (Cambridge number 7) who flew in from Canada to be present. The umpire rode in the steam launch Consuta, built in 1898, transported by road from her home base on the Thames to Ely specially for the Diamond44 re-contest race. Consuta had carried the camera crew and commentators John Snagge and Raymond Baxter for the first televised Boat Race in 1949. She will be the umpire's launch for another Cambridge v. Oxford race at 5.15 p.m. on 28th March 2004, when veteran crews will race each other in replica 1829 'gigs' as a curtain-raiser to this years's Boat Race, the 150th. Event organisers, the Diamond44 Community Group of City of Ely residents, had arranged a full programme for the day, including the laying of a wreath at the grave of Charles Merivale, instigator of and participant in that first Boat Race in 1829 and later Dean of Ely Cathedral. This ceremony was followed by a Service of Thanksgiving in Ely Cathedral. A full programme of rowing races followed, involving crews from the Royal Navy and the Army, and local schools and clubs. Crowds of several thousand people turned out to be a part of history, just as in 1944, despite the bitter cold (perhaps encouraged by the beer tent and the specially-brewed Diamond4.4 abv ale provided by Elgood's of Wisbech!). A lone Spitfire flew down the course just prior to the main race, the re-contest of that 1944 event. Certainly a day to go down in history. |
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Monday March 1st saw CUBC President, Wayne Pommen issue the traditional
challenge to Oxford President, Sam McLennan who accepted. The
presidents then announced their crews for the great encounter on Sunday
March 28th. Cambridge are lead by Pommen who missed out on the race last year due to an injury sustained as the result of a collision on the river two days before the race. He returns to take his seat in 2004 on bow side, and is joined by Hugo Mallinson (2003 Blue), Andrew Shannon and Chris Le Neve Foster (both Goldie 2003). On Stroke side Kris Coventry (Blue 2003) is joined by Sebastian Mayer (Blue 2002) and Nate Kirk and Steffen Buschbacher (both Goldie 2002). Kenelm Richardson will steer the boat. The crew is an exciting mix with those returning Blues from 2002 & 2003 being joined by four men from Goldie 2003. Goldie were highly disrupted by the collision in 2003 because every man had to change seats in the re-shuffle which ensued. They nevertheless went on to beat Isis and will want to prove their worth in the 2004 Blue Boat. Click here to view more information on the crews. |
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| Three CUBC oarsmen have brought home medals from the Beijing Olympics. Former winning CUBC President Tom James won the gold medal as bowman of the British Mens Heavyweight Coxless Four. In a thrilling finish, 'TJ' led his men to a half length victory, overhauling the Australian crew in the last 250m. In the Mens Eights, CUBC Blue Boat winners Tom Stallard and Josh West won silver for Great Britain, in another nail-biting finish. The CUBC extends its warmest congratulations to our medal winners, who continue the proud tradition of CUBC success at the Olympic Games. | |||
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On Thursday 12th February, on a frosty but bright morning, the new Empacher shell in which the Blue Boat will row the Boat Race on 29th March was named “The 800th” by His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, K.G., K.T., Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. The boat-naming was the Chancellor’s first engagement after a period of recovery from a recent back injury. During his day in Cambridge, he moved on from Goldie boathouse to the railway station where he named a train, also in recognition of the 800th anniversary of the founding of the University, and he also visited Christ’s College. Follow the link for a report of the Chancellor’s day in Cambridge - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/7886278.stmFollowing the Chancellor’s departure, the 2009 Squad, Old Blues, committee members, friends, family and guests enjoyed an Open Morning at the Goldie. |
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Cambridge University Boat Club will race two top flight British rowing clubs over the next ten days as part of their build up to the 2009 Boat Race (29th March). Molesey Boat Club and Leander Club are both expected to select top-class crews for these Fixtures. Both clubs will be keen to test their winter preparations for the forthcoming Head of the River Race (21st March), and are likely to include many top-level World and Olympic level athletes in their lineups, to give Cambridge a stern test ahead of the Boat Race. On Sunday 8th March at 10.30 a.m., CUBC's Blue Boat will race Molesey Boat Club. Later in the week, at 2.15 p.m., Leander Club will be Cambridge's opposition. The racing on both days will be on the Putney to Mortlake Championship course. Goldie, CUBC's reserve crew, will also race Molesey and Leander crews on both days, starting 30 minutes before the Blue Boat fixtures. Notices to Mariners have been issued. |
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On Wednesday 18th March, CUBC will race a Tideway Scullers' School crew comprising the world's eight foremost heavyweight male scullers. All six competitors in the Beijing Men's Single Sculls Final will be aboard, joined by Hacker (M1x bronze in Sydney 2000) and Cop ( M2x gold in Sydney 2000, and a Beijing M2x finalist):
Bow - Tim Maeyens (BEL)
The "Great Eight" has been brought together by Bill Barry, legendary mastermind behind many recent Tideway Scullers' School Head of the River Fours triumphs. CUBC's fixture against this crew is a keenly anticipated test for the Blue Boat in its build up for the Boat Race on 29th March. The racing will start at 3.30 p.m. from the University Stone, Putney. |
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If
2002 was billed as the 'race of the century' then 2003 has already
surpassed it. A magnificent battle unfolded on Sunday April 6th between
Cambridge and Oxford and saw the lead change several times during the
18 minute race. Cambridge, on the Surrey station, seemed to nearly
achieve the break from Oxford at Hammersmith, but Oxford would not let
them go clear and the race continued side by side towards Barnes
Bridge. With only 3 minutes left to row and Cambridge facing the
outside of the long final bend they were 2/3 length down and facing a
seemingly impossible challenge. A huge effort, however, saw a thrilling
finish with both crews raising their rates and sprinting as hard as
they could. In the end a defeat by one foot was the devastating result
for Cambridge. This was a dramatic conclusion to a great race at the end of an eventful week. The two crews contained the brothers Livingston (James for Cambridge, David for Oxford) but on Friday April 4th a bad collision on the river during official Start Practice saw Cambridge bow man, Wayne Pommen, break his wrist and thereby lose his chance to race on Saturday. This was a tragedy for Wayne and with so little time before the race Ben Smith had to be brought in as substitute. Ben's brother, Matt was President and stroke of the Oxford boat which meant 2 sets of brothers now racing each other ! Further details of the race can be found on the Boat Race website. |
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Sebastian Schulte (Cambridge Blue '05) was a member of the bronze-medal
winning German VIII at the recent rowing world championships. The
Deutschland Achter had previously won the 2005 FISA World Cup overall,
with outright victories at Eton and Lucerne Regattas, and also the
Grand Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta. Also competing in the World Championship VIIIs Final in the British crew were Kieran West (Blue '99 and '01, Olympic Gold '00), and Tom Stallard and Josh West (both Blues '99, '00, '01 and '02). James Orme (Goldie '04 and '05, and FISA U23 World Championship finallist in '04 and '05) was present as the British heavyweight squad spare man. Nick English, Cambridge University Lightweight Rowing Club and CUBC Henley medal-winner, rowed in the British lightweight IV- event. This crew was one of 3 men's lightweight crews coached for these World Championships by Robin Williams, Chief Coach at CUBC from 1994 to 2005. |
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It was a beautiful afternoon on the Tideway as the TSS “Great 8” arrived at Putney on Wednesday for their fixture with the Cambridge blue boat.
The TSS crew all seem to be enjoying their busman’s holiday, and are settling well into sweep rowing as the week goes on, though there were a few language issues to overcome initially and Iztok Cop was spotted wearing a glove on his right hand, as presumably even Olympic Scullers are prone to blisters when they swap to sweep. The crews raced two pieces from Putney to Hammersmith which, whilst giving Cambridge plenty of experience over the first half of the course means that they haven’t been pushed over the second half, as their first fixture against Molesey was cancelled. Tom Ransley, still looking out for his back, wasn’t expected to return to the crew until Thursday, so Goldie 7 seat, George Nash once again found himself in the Cambridge 3 seat. TSS won the toss and chose Middlesex for the first race but were caught out by the speed of the Cambridge crew’s start. The light blues secured an early lead, pushing it out to a length by the end of the Fulham wall and while they weren’t able to extend their lead any further, Scullers never managed to close the gap and didn’t look very happy about it. Passing the first of the red buoys on the way to Hammersmith, there was an almighty clunk – not from the crews (which were both keeping well away from it) but rather from one of the Cambridge tin fish launches. The errant vessel was driven by Donald Legget, who was obviously paying too much attention to the race and not enough to what was immediately ahead (may go some way to explaining why they’re so keen to lift the buoys for the race...) After heading back to Putney for the second race, Scullers appeared to have learnt their lesson and were better prepared for the light blues fast start. Although CUBC were on the inside of the first bend they didn’t manage to get as much of a lead in the first minute, and TSS dug in hard to row them down on the outside of the bend, edging ahead to win by a length. The verdict on the second piece was similar to that which Leander had at Hammersmith in their race with Cambridge on Friday, though the water was less rough and Cambridge certainly looked to be rowing better today. Could make the HORR very interesting come Saturday... Pictures from the race can be seen on Dodsworld. And a fairly long video clip of the first race is at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEfDoR44414&feature=channel_page (courtesy of the Tideway Slug) |
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Rowing with precision and control, GB's cox'less IV, with Josh West at
bow and Rick Dunn in the stroke seat, stormed through to win a
thrilling World Cup round final at Hazewinkel on Sunday 16th June. Dunn, comfortably in control throughout the race, powered the GB IV through to victory in the last 250 metres, burning past Germany who had lead from the start, and Italy. Italy took silver, Germany eventually finishing third with France in fourth place. Josh was in the seat Ed Coode, out through injury, occupied last year when this IV won Gold at the World Championship. |
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After a break for Christmas, the CUBC squad travelled to the small
sleepy town of Banyoles in Spain, site of the 1992 Olympic Rowing
Regatta, for our annual training and selection camp. The shared
experience of ten days of intense and competitive racing, mixed with
miles of endurance training, helped forge a hard-earned level of
respect and trust between triallists. Weather conditions were fantastic; out on the water you might catch a glimpse of your oar’s perfect sunny reflection on the still surface of Lake Banyoles; or at the turn-arounds, you could gaze briefly over the surrounding hills to the snow capped mountains of the Pyrennees looming in the distance against a clear blue sky. We would like to thank the local rowing officials in Banyoles for their help in organising our camp and for their kind hospitality. Special thanks also to Selma and the staff at La Carpa restaurant. Apologies to all those who witnessed Tom James and Ed Sherwood line dancing on New Year’s Eve. |
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| Cambridge won Open coxless fours at the Fours Head of the River on Saturday November 6th over the Championships Course from Mortlake to Putney. They finished an impressive 3rd overall beating all but two of the quad sculls in the field. Cambridge II and III, also coxless fours did well to finish in the top 10 all ahead of Oxford's first 4- who came 12th. Cambridge VI won Senior 1 coxed fours. Next on the autumn calendar is the British Indoor Ergometer Championships on November 21st in Birmingham. | |||
Sharp's
Brewery has become the Summer sponsor for Cambridge University Boat Club for
the Summer 2009 season. The highlight event is of course Henley Royal Regatta
and the CUBC and Goldie BC racing suits will sport the Doom Bar brand.
Chris Nilsson has been appointed Chief Coach of the Cambridge University Boat Club. Chris joins the Club from his previous position as Olympic coach with Rowing New Zealand. He will start in autumn 2008 to lead the CUBC squad in the 2009 Boat Race campaign.
At a meeting in Goldie Boathouse this evening, Deaglan
McEachern was confirmed as CUBC's President for 2009-2010. Deaglan, a
History student and alumnus of the University of California (Berkeley),
becomes the first Hughes Hall man in the college's history to hold this
office.
